daylight a prism
of worry, night an eerie
chandelier of stars
my dream life
has you up, dressed
and walking
glint of resolve
air deprived and hidden
inside this verse
nail a sprig of logic
to your door — defy
the diagnosis
morning shimmer
whispers, you are still
in this world
Published in Open Arts Forum on .
Sara Clancy is a Philadelphia transplant to the Southwest. Her chapbook Ghost Logic won the 2017 Turtle Island Quarterly Editors Choice Award. Among other places, her poems have appeared in Off the Coast, The Linnet's Wings, Crab Creek Review, The Madison Review, Misfit Magazine, Avatar Review and Verse Wisconsin. She lives in the desert with her husband, their dog, two ordinary cats and a psychotic cross-eyed one.
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